ACR Master Calendar

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			01 ACR Family Section July Teleseminar	02	03	04
05	06 Spirituality Section telemeeting	07	08 ACR Workplace Section Teleconference ACR Spirituality Section: A Conversation with Bernie Mayer	09 Call for Nominations for Election to ACR's Board of Directors and President-Elec	10	11
12	13 Call for Nominations for ACR Awards Deadline Call for Nominations – 2009 ACR Annual Awards	14	15	16 ACR Commercial Section Educational Teleseminar Part 2	17	18
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26	27	28	29 Innovations in Collaboration and Conflict Resolution	30 Innovations in Collaboration and Conflict Resolution	31 Innovations in Collaboration and Conflict Resolution

Description:

Considering the Role of Anger in Family Mediation:
Benefits and Disadvantages

Speaker: J. Scott Brown, Ph. D.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

3:00 - 4:00 pm (Eastern)

Anger is a powerful and, when healthy, a valuable emotion. Participants will learn how to recognize and help clients recognize healthy and unhealthy anger. In addition, we will discuss the four anger creating attitudes and the ways in which court exacerbates these attitudes. Third, we will discuss the effects of parental anger on children. Finally, we will discuss brief and effective techniques for helping our clients maintain a problem solving, here-and-now focus.

J. Scott Brown, Ph.D.

Dr. Brown is a graduate of William Jewell College with majors in Psychology and Religion. He has a Master’s in Counseling and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He completed his pre-doctoral internship at Harvard University. Dr. Brown has managed clinical programs in several area hospitals while maintaining a small private practice. Approximately ten years ago, he moved into full time private practice in Overland Park, Kansas. His practice has been focused in the areas of forensic psychology, Police Psychology, children and their families, hypnosis, and training/performance improvement. In a recent conversation, Scott and a colleague tallied the number of hours that each had spent conducting psychotherapy. During his career, Scott has spent over 30,000 hours providing psychotherapy for clients.

Participating in Family Section teleseminars will provide continuing education credit for Advanced Practitioners. Simply record your participation on your ACR Continuing Education reports.

Participants that are ACR members are welcome to log on to the Family Section web site. Please note this is separate from your ACR web site log on name and password. Consult the Family Section web site at http://acrfamilysection.org/ for instructions.

Recordings of the teleseminars are available. Please consult the Family Section web site for more information.

Description:

Please join us for the July Spirituality Section telemeeting!

We will be conducting the business of the section and discussing our upcoming conference in Atlanta as well as RMR5!

Date: Monday, July 6, 2009
Time: 9:30 am (Eastern), 7:30 am (Mountain)

Spirituality Section members will receive dial in instructions by email.

For further information, please visit the Spirituality Section web site.

See you there!

Description:

ACR Workplace Section: Conflict Coaching Teleconference "Emotions: Obstacle or Gateway to a Lasting Resolution?"

Wednesday, July 8, 2009
12:00 – 1:00 pm (Eastern)

Workplace Section members will receive dial in instructions by email.

For further information, please visit the Workplace Section web site.

Emotional issues lie at the heart of conflict. Ideally, conflict coaches and others who work with people in conflict are skilled and confident when working with emotions. Yet for most of us, strong emotions can be very challenging and if left unaddressed can become roadblocks that lead to impasse. Rather than fearing the eruption of strong emotions, what if you had the tools to work with them so that instead of being obstacles, they become a portal to achieving enduring resolutions for clients? This teleconference will help coaches become more skilled and confident in this important arena.

Presentation Outline:
Welcome and sharing of session objectives
The Role of Emotions in conflict
Physiology and classification of emotions
Models for emotional management - emotional awareness model for coaches
Intervention choices
Exploration of intervention choices in context of provided scenarios

Eileen Barker is a well-known Bay Area mediator and trainer. Drawing on over 25 years of experience in law, conflict resolution and psychology, she mediates involving businesses, employment, partnerships, family businesses and divorce. She is an adjunct faculty member of UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt) and Hasting College of Law and teaches classes on mediation, working with emotions and forgiveness.

(415) 925-0900
http://www.barker-mediation.com
ebarker7@aol.com

John Ford is an attorney from South Africa who works with individuals and organizations to approach conflict with greater clarity. He mediates workplace and health care disputes, provides skill-based corporate trainings, and teaches at JFK University and Sonoma State University. He has been the managing editor for Mediate.com since 2000, and is a past president of the Association for Dispute Resolution of Northern California.

(510) 301-9095
johnford@mediate.com
www.johnford.com

For more information on the Conflict Coaching Committee and to suggest topic ideas, please contact this Committee’s Chair Cinnie Noble at cinnie@cinergycoaching.com , 416-686-4247, toll free 1-866-335-6466.

Description:

The ACR Spirituality Section is pleased to present

A Conversation with Bernie Mayer:
Staying With Conflict: Constructive Interventions in Enduring Disputes

Wednesday, July 8
3:00 pm (Eastern)

The most important conflicts in our lives do not go away but remain with us over time. This is because they represent basic issues of identity, structure, and values. In this seminar, Mayer will present an approach, based on that which is presented in “Staying With Conflict: A Strategic Approach to Ongoing Disputes” (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2009) to help mediators work with clients with long-term conflicts in a constructive way. Mayer will also discuss how taking on the challenge of enduring conflict can offer a significant opportunity for our field to expand our practice by addressing the most important and troubling conflicts that people, organizations, and communities face.

Bernard Mayer, Ph.D., Professor, Werner Institute for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, Creighton University, and Partner, CDA Associates, is an internationally-recognized leader in the field of conflict resolution. Bernie has facilitated many complex and controversial environmental conflicts, commercial and organizational disputes, interpersonal conflicts, public decision-making processes, and has an extensive background in family mediation as well.

Bernie is the author of many books and articles including The Dynamics of Conflict Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide” (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2000), “Beyond Neutrality: Confronting the Crisis in Conflict Resolution” (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2004), and “Staying With Conflict: A Strategic Approach to Ongoing Disputes” (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2009)

Spirituality Section members will receive dial in instructions by email.

For further information, please visit the Spirituality Section web site.

Description:

All recommendations for candidates must be received, in writing, by the close of business on July 9, 2009, to ACR Nominating Committee, 5151 Wisconsin Ave. NW #500, Washington, DC 20016 or by email to pwashington@acrnet.org with “Nominations Committee” in the subject line.

Description:

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS – 2009 ACR ANNUAL AWARDS

ACR invites your nomination of candidates for the awards listed below. These awards are given in recognition of superior performance in, and outstanding contributions made to, the field of alternative dispute resolution. Your assistance in identifying worthy candidates will help us to honor those who work tirelessly to promote the use of ADR for addressing conflicts. Please seek the nominee’s permission beforehand, particularly since it is expected that award recipients will be present at the ACR Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, October 7-10, 2009, to receive his/her award. The Nomination Form is posted on the ACR web site at http://www.acrnet.org/about/awards/index.htm.

Mary Parker Follett Award
The Mary Parker Follett Award is presented to an individual who has shown a passion and willingness to take risks; in tackling a contemporary problem or opportunity in the field of dispute resolution; has used innovative and experimental techniques; and draws upon the talents and ideas of all persons involved. Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933) was an early advocate of resolving conflict by encouraging parties to integrate interests into negotiations. During the mid-1920s, Follett shifted her focus from community group processes to the field of business. Business leaders sought her advice on how to manage their enterprises, and she became a featured speaker at national and international business conferences. Her talks were drawn together and published posthumously in the influential book Dynamic Administration. Nomination Deadline: July 13, 2009 at 5:00 pm

John M. Haynes Distinguished Mediator Award
The John M. Haynes Distinguished Mediator Award is presented annually to a prominent and internationally recognized leader in mediation who demonstrates personal and professional commitment to finding mediation solutions to conflict while balancing therapeutic and legal perspectives. John M. Haynes was a pioneer in the field of family mediation, a respected author and practitioner, an international trainer, and the first president of the Academy of Family Mediators. In keeping with his legacy, the candidate should demonstrate innovation, creativity, and outstanding competence in: published writings, training, and practice; maintain personal and professional integrity and respect for others; and embrace a sense of humor and humility about our standing as fallible beings. Nomination Deadline: July 13, 2009 at 5:00 pm

Peacemaker Award
The Peacemaker Award acknowledges the significant and sustained contributions by an individual or organization to the cause of peace. At its heart, the purpose of conflict resolution, and the goal of ACR, is to bring peace to troubled relationships, whether domestic, organizational, environmental, or international. This award recognizes efforts to bring peace through various conflict resolution approaches to ethnic, religious, and civil conflicts that have raged domestically and outside the United States. The Peacemaker Award was instituted in 2001. Nomination Deadline: July 13, 2009 at 5:00 pm

Sharon M. Pickett Award
The Sharon M. Pickett Award was established in honor of Sharon M. Pickett who served as Editor of ACResolution from 2000-2007. In addition to serving as a family mediator and trainer, Sharon worked as a communication specialist for many environmental NGOs. Her clients included the Center for International Environmental Law, Sierra Club, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Union of Concerned Scientists, Ozone Action, Clean Air Task Force, Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning, Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, and others. In recognition of Sharon’s ardent advocacy of environmental issues and mediation, both professionally and personally, the Association for Conflict Resolution presents the Sharon M. Pickett Award annually. The award honors an ACR member who has advanced the cause of environmental protection through the effective use of alternative dispute resolution. Nomination Deadline: July 13, 2009 at 5:00 pm

Description:

ACR invites your nomination of candidates for the awards listed below. These awards are given in recognition of superior performance in, and outstanding contributions made to, the field of alternative dispute resolution. Your assistance in identifying worthy candidates will help us to honor those who work tirelessly to promote the use of ADR for addressing conflicts.

Nomination Deadline: July 13, 2009, 5:00 pm

Description:

The Commercial Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution Presents a Complimentary Educational Teleseminar

LEVERAGING THE INTERNET TO MARKET COMMERCIAL ADR

Featured Speaker: Tammy Lenski, Ed. D.

July 16, 2009
12:00 Noon (Eastern)

Commercial Section members will receive dial in instructions by email.

For further information, please visit the Commercial Section web site.

Moderators:
Jerome Allan Landau, J.D., Dispute Solutions LLC
Kurt Dettman, Constructive Dispute Resolutions

The Topic

In 2008 Dr. Tammy Lenski published Making Mediation Your Day Job: How to Market Your ADR Business Using Mediation Principles You Already Know. In the book Dr. Lenski offered practical strategies and tips for establishing and growing a successful practice. Dr. Lenski will present teleseminars in two separate sessions to help (and inspire) mediators to take their practices to the next level. This is the second of the two sessions and builds on the “dialogue marketing” content explored in the first session.

No marketing today is fully effective without a viable web presence. An advertising-skeptical market, combined with a public that increasingly turns to the web to locate services local to them, means that many traditional marketing tools have declining returns. What's the good news? Leveraging today's web to more fully market a commercial ADR practice doesn't require you to be born with a geek gene. This teleseminar will explore user-friendly tech tools that are accessible, easier to learn, and can have resoundingly stronger results.

Teleseminar participants will learn:

* Why websites that are online brochures are becoming online dinosaurs.

* What a viable web presence means on today's Internet.

* How to help your market find you -- and come back for more.

* How to use social media effectively and without spending too much time at your computer.

* How to choose the best social networking platform for your marketing needs.

Learning about these marketing concepts and techniques is a must-listen session for your mediator career game plan and successful practice!

Description:

Center for Public Policy Dispute Resolution
"Innovations in Collaboration and Conflict Resolution"
Lakeway Resort and Spa
Austin, Texas
July 29-31, 2009

Come join practitioners, business professionals, and academicians for insightful learning and discussion in a resort setting overlooking scenic Lake Travis. This dynamic skill building program allows participants to choose among six two-day sessions, all representing the latest advances in the field. Spending two days in one session contributes to a deeper and more focused experience. In addition, the program fosters opportunities for a variety of connections through topical discussion groups. The selected session topics showcase prominent trainers and fresh contributions to the field.

For more information, contact Vicki Read at cppdr@law.utexas.edu.

Description:

Center for Public Policy Dispute Resolution
"Innovations in Collaboration and Conflict Resolution"
Lakeway Resort and Spa
Austin, Texas
July 29-31, 2009

Come join practitioners, business professionals, and academicians for insightful learning and discussion in a resort setting overlooking scenic Lake Travis. This dynamic skill building program allows participants to choose among six two-day sessions, all representing the latest advances in the field. Spending two days in one session contributes to a deeper and more focused experience. In addition, the program fosters opportunities for a variety of connections through topical discussion groups. The selected session topics showcase prominent trainers and fresh contributions to the field.

For more information, contact Vicki Read at cppdr@law.utexas.edu.

Description:

Center for Public Policy Dispute Resolution
"Innovations in Collaboration and Conflict Resolution"
Lakeway Resort and Spa
Austin, Texas
July 29-31, 2009

Come join practitioners, business professionals, and academicians for insightful learning and discussion in a resort setting overlooking scenic Lake Travis. This dynamic skill building program allows participants to choose among six two-day sessions, all representing the latest advances in the field. Spending two days in one session contributes to a deeper and more focused experience. In addition, the program fosters opportunities for a variety of connections through topical discussion groups. The selected session topics showcase prominent trainers and fresh contributions to the field.

For more information, contact Vicki Read at cppdr@law.utexas.edu.

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